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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Galloway, Scotland, or to its historic people, language and culture.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Galway, Ireland, or to its residents.
  • noun Someone from Galloway.
  • noun Someone from Galway.

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Examples

  • John, wilt look starch and stiff enough for her Galwegian maid of honour, the Countess Hermigild; and Dwining shall present the old Hecate, her nurse — only she hath more beard on her upper lip than Dwining on his whole face, and skull to boot.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Think some ingain think, as Teakortairer sate over the Galwegian caftan forewhen Orops and Aasas were chooldrengs and micramacrees!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • A rim was pressed to her lips and she tasted the appalling burn of Galwegian usquebaugh.

    The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

  • The young knight rode a solid dun cob and had a tubby Galwegian pack pony on a leading rein.

    The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

  • With his Galwegian brogue, Jones was particularly suspect.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • With his Galwegian brogue, Jones was particularly suspect.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • The most suggestive point in the "Flyting" is that a native of the Lothians could still regard a Galwegian as a "beggar Irish bard".

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • Accordingly, the Knights of the Round Table did not recoil with more terror from the apparition of the loathly lady placed between ‘an oak and a green holly, ’ than Lucy Bertram and Julia Mannering did from the appearance of this Galwegian sibyl upon the common of Ellangowan.

    Chapter LIII 1917

  • In this they resemble the inland traditions of the peasants; but many of the oral treasures of the Galwegian or the Cumbrian coast have the stamp of the Dane and the Norseman upon them, and claim but a remote or faint affinity with the legitimate legends of Caledonia.

    Stories of Mystery Various 1885

  • We have not an interpreter at hand, and so cannot wrestle with the intricacies of the authoress's name, which appears to be some Galwegian form of

    Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

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